@RussianCivilWar's Library Thread - Pt. 1
1. 
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China
by:
Julia Lovell
3.89 avg rating — 1,544 ratings 
3. 
China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience
by:
R. Bin Wong
3.89 avg rating — 55 ratings 4. 
Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China
by:
Laura Hostetler
3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings 5. 
China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia
by:
Peter C. Perdue
4.16 avg rating — 243 ratings 6. 
The Cambridge History of China, Volume 8: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 2 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
7. 
The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
by:
Pu Yi
3.81 avg rating — 1,166 ratings 
9. 
The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
by:
Lynn A. Struve
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 10. 
The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC
by:
Michael Loewe
4.11 avg rating — 91 ratings 
14. 
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
by:
Stephen R. Platt
4.23 avg rating — 1,989 ratings 
16. 
The Sino-Japanese War Of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power, And Primacy
by:
S.C.M. Paine
3.72 avg rating — 78 ratings 17. 
History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth
by:
Paul A. Cohen
3.97 avg rating — 322 ratings 18. 
Asian trade and European influence in the Indonesian archipelago between 1500 and about 1630 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
19.
Indonesia: The Role of the Indonesian Chinese in Shaping Modern Indonesian Life
by:
Audrey R. Kahin
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 20. 
Growing Pains: The Chinese and the Dutch in Colonial Java, 1890-1942
by:
Mona Lohanda
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 21. 
China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (History of Imperial China, #3) 3.94 avg rating — 285 ratings
23. 
Amid the Clouds and Mist: China’s Colonization of Guizhou, 1200–1700 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
by:
John E. Herman
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 24. 
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
by:
Bin Yang
4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings 
26. 
The Age of Wild Ghosts: Memory, Violence, and Place in Southwest China
by:
Erik Mueggler
4.30 avg rating — 61 ratings 27. 
Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of Qing China's Yunnan Frontier really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
28. 
The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873
by:
David G. Atwill
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings 29. 
China's Last Empire: The Great Qing (History of Imperial China, #6)
by:
William T. Rowe
4.07 avg rating — 312 ratings 
31. 
Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire in Qing Central Asia, 1759-1864 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings
32. 
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
by:
Stephen R. Platt
4.34 avg rating — 2,933 ratings 33. 
Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China (Volume 28) (Studies on China) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
34. 
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
37. 
Medieval Russia, 980–1584 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
by:
Janet Martin
3.65 avg rating — 102 ratings 
39. 
40. 
Arctic Mirrors: Russia and the Small Peoples of the North
by:
Yuri Slezkine
4.02 avg rating — 82 ratings 41. 
Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East
by:
David Wolff
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 42. 
Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture
by:
Galya Diment
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 43. 
Taming the Wild Field: Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe 3.40 avg rating — 67 ratings
44. 
Russia's Frozen Frontier: A History of Siberia and the Russian Far East 1581 - 1991
by:
Alan Wood
3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings 45. 
A History of the Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony 1581-1990
by:
James Forsyth
4.10 avg rating — 50 ratings 
48. 
Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence
by:
Shoshana Keller
4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings 49. 
Southern and Eastern Polynesia: Volume 2 of Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840
by:
Glynn R. Barratt
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
51. 
Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought
by:
Allison Blakely
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings 52. 
53. 
The Serbs and Russian Pan-Slavism 1875-1878
by:
David MacKenzie
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
57. 
The Asanids: The Political and Military History of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185-1280) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
58. 
Bulgaria and her people, with an account of the Balkan wars, Macedonia, and the Macedonian Bulgars it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
59. 
The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony: Silver-Lined Skulls and Blinded Armies 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
60. 
Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940
by:
Afshin Marashi
3.88 avg rating — 32 ratings 61. 
Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution 4.13 avg rating — 1,900 ratings
63. 
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
by:
Stephen Kinzer
4.29 avg rating — 10,842 ratings 64. 
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
by:
Tom Holland
4.17 avg rating — 11,231 ratings 
66. 
The Empires of Ancient Persia: The History and Legacy of the Achaemenids, Parthians, and Sassanids in Antiquity 3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
67. 
From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire
by:
Pierre Briant
4.40 avg rating — 122 ratings 68. 
The Ghaznavids: their Empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran 994-1040 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
69. 
The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia: 1300-1700 (Eastern Africa Series, 27)
by:
Mohammed Hassen
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 70. 
Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300 (Eastern Africa Series) 3.57 avg rating — 21 ratings
71. 
Medieval Ethiopian Kingship, Craft, and Diplomacy with Latin Europe
by:
Verena Krebs
4.73 avg rating — 15 ratings 72. 
Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (Massinahigan Series: Brief Accounts of Early Native America, 2)
by:
David Cusick
3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings 
76. 
79. 
Portuguese Sea Battles - Volume I - The First World Sea Power 1139-1521 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
80. 
The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves
by:
Lucio De Sousa
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 81. 
82. 
Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580 (Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion, vol. I) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
83. 
The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic History 3.82 avg rating — 50 ratings
85. 
Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies
by:
Ann Twinam
3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings 86. 
Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present
by:
Laura Gotkowitz
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings 87. 
Race and Manifest Destiny: Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism
by:
Reginald Horsman
3.84 avg rating — 146 ratings 88. 
